Melbourne residential property price index
Discontinued · ended 2021 · kept for reference
Residential property price index, Melbourne · Australian Bureau of Statistics · December quarter 2021
Melbourne residential property price index 185.7 in the December quarter 2021.
What the numbers say
The Residential Property Price Index, Melbourne, published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, has ended. Its last reading was 185.7 in the December quarter 2021, up 3.9% on the quarter from 178.7 in the September quarter 2021. That last reading was at the peak, the highest since the series began in the September quarter 2003. The low of 60.7 was in the September quarter 2003. For comparison, the Residential property price index, eight capitals, stood at 183.9 in the December quarter 2021.
What was the last reading of the Melbourne residential property price index?
The last reading of the Melbourne residential property price index was 185.7 in the December quarter 2021. That was up 3.9% on the quarter, from 178.7 in the September quarter 2021.
When did the Melbourne property price index end?
The Melbourne property price index ended with its last reading in the December quarter 2021, when it stood at 185.7. The series ran from the September quarter 2003.
What was the highest reading of the Melbourne property price index since the series began in 2003?
The highest reading of the Melbourne property price index was 185.7 in the December quarter 2021, the highest since the series began in the September quarter 2003. That was also its last reading.
Written from the figures on this page · updated 5 October 2026
Recent quarters
| Quarter | Value | Status |
|---|---|---|
| December quarter 2021 | 185.7 | final |
| September quarter 2021 | 178.7 | final |
| June quarter 2021 | 172.5 | final |
| March quarter 2021 | 162.6 | final |
| December quarter 2020 | 154.7 | final |
| September quarter 2020 | 149.6 | final |
| June quarter 2020 | 150.0 | final |
| March quarter 2020 | 153.5 | final |
Full series · 74 quarters · CSV · JSON
The Residential Property Price Index for Melbourne tracks changes in the prices of residential dwellings in the Greater Melbourne capital city area, expressed as an index. It combines established houses and attached dwellings such as units, townhouses and apartments, weighting the two components by the value of the dwelling stock. The series on this page runs from September quarter 2003 to December quarter 2021, with the final reading at 185.7.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics discontinued this quarterly series after the December 2021 quarter, so it no longer receives new observations; it remains useful as a consistent historical record of Melbourne dwelling prices across two decades. As an index it describes price change relative to its reference period, not dollar price levels — the median house and unit price series in the same topic carry those. Published under CC BY 4.0.
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- Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, ABS Residential Property Price Indexes, retrieved 11 September 2026. CC BY 4.0.